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| Lady with Short Hair |
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| Line Work. |
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| Original Sketch. |
The nice thing with doing these types of drawings is I can mess around with different colour combinations and see what happens. With this one, I decided I wanted this character to have a green nose! Watching the time-lapse, you can see me messing around with some of the shapes/proportions. It's great to just try out things on the fly and see what works.
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| Man with a Green Nose |
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| Line Work. |
Following up from the previous post, I was keen to do another cartoonish portrait based on one of my sketches from work. This time I also captured a time-lapse of the process. I quite liked how this one came out!
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| Man Who Squints |
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| Line Work. |
I really enjoyed this. It was great to get away from the sort of realistic/hyper realistic stuff and just have fun trying something more cartoony!
At work when I'd have a little downtime I'd sketch little character thumbnails, and one day I just thought "Hey, why not take some of these and render them out properly?", so that's what I did!
This design kinda reminds me of those funny designs of the puppets on the old Spitting Image show which I loved.
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| Man with Large Nose |
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| Line work. |
Back in 2020 for work, I created some graphics to help "jazz-up" an Information Management System that my team was developing on the company's intranet. I was pretty limited to what tools I had at my disposal on the office computer; however, using Microsoft PowerPoint and the basic shape tools that come with it, I was able to create a number of graphics. I was pretty impressed with the results. The following are a collection of the ones I quite liked.
In September, I felt the urge to draw/paint something, so another girl portrait was the obvious choice! Based on the reference here, I wanted to play it fairly fast and loose. I was also trying a different brush in photoshop. Not much else to say. I felt pretty rusty doing this, but it was a worthwhile exercise.
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| Girl 2021 |
This was another piece that was a long time in the making, in which I took on around the time I started the Warrior commission back in 2015, with the idea that I'd commence it after the Warrior's completion (in early 2016). Needless to say, after getting through the greyscale render of the painting and I think having to stop for a period due to health issues in 2016 it went on the back burner for some time. Every now and then I'd do a bit of work on it, but would ultimately sit dormant until early 2021 (after the 'rush' I was feeling from completing Dragons' Feast) where I was motivated to finally just get IT done.
Unlike the Warrior painting, the brief was to take the painting of Kaiser Wilhelm II in German Navy Uniform and replace the subject with the client's likeness. It was an interesting experience, although not as creatively stimulating since it was mainly an exercise in reproduction. In all, I thought the end result was fine.
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| German Emperor |
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| Greyscale (Work in Progress) |
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| Facial Reference (Sam) |
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| Reference - Kaiser Wilhelm II in German Navy Uniform |
